Anna Alchuk was a Russian poet and visual artist.
14 Facts About Anna Alchuk
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Anna Alchuk was married for 33 years to the philosopher Michail Ryklin.
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Anna Alchuk was the name under which she worked as an artist, and by which she is identified in many English language sources.
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Anna Alchuk grew up in another rich mining region, in Vorkuta in the North Urals.
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Anna Alchuk identified with her grandmother whom she never met, since the old lady spent the last thirty years of her life locked away in a psychiatric institution.
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Anna Alchuk was a member of the Russian section of PEN International and of the Academy of Zaum.
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Anna Alchuk found herself identified in the Russian press not as an adventurous artist and lyric poet but as a political figurehead of opposition.
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Anna Alchuk's diary of dreams shows that being a "Putin critic" is a life-threatening occupation.
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Anna Alchuk lived in constant fear of my life and her own.
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On March 21,2008 Anna Alchuk left the couple's Berlin apartment, telling her husband she was going to the shops to buy washing powder.
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Anna Alchuk recognised the wedding ring when he was shown a photograph of it.
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Anna Alchuk had worked through police investigation reports of around 100 pages.
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Anna Alchuk had worked through 27 numbered note books in which Anna, like most serious writers, had confided her thoughts and dreams, insights and, increasingly, her nightmares.
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Anna Alchuk had discovered many things about Anna, about himself, and about their marriage, that he had not known before.